Copy of an illustration to the Hortus Deliciarum by Abbess Herrad von Landsberg (1167–1195) [original manuscript was destroyed by fire in 1870]
folio 27v
Germany (Hohenburg Abbey, Alsace), late 12th century

Detail of a copy of the Ebstorf Mappa Mundi by Gervase of Tilbury [the original manuscript came from the Benedictine monastery at Ebstorf; was moved to the Museum of the Historical Society of Lower Saxony in Hanover in 1845; and destroyed by bombing in 1943]
Germany (Ebstorf), circa 1234

Update [2009-01-01]

In the two years since the birth of this page on January 1st 2007 the number of views of the Tower of Babel has grown to well over a hundred. To make this page easier to manage, and hopefully easier to appreciate, I am now restricting this page to medieval views of the Tower of Babel (at present less then the nominal 72 views in the title, but I expect the number of views to grow as more and more medieval manuscripts are digitized and made available online).

See the following pages for post-medieval and modern views of the Tower of Babel :